Opinion: Chuck Hagel's Nomination Could Be Kaput

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... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... House Republicans blocked the nomination of Chuck cable for defense secretary temporarily ... is this the responsible thing to do more House Republicans setting a precedent ... that they will linger regress IGT Republicans House Republicans excuse me it's frightening ... editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz is here ... to talk about temporarily blocking Mr. cables nomination your plot to cite the arena that political blunder ... talk about temporarily because we don't know maybe in fact a real block but I don't think that that's now in a life that Mr tingle ... of where we have to worry about regrets ... the big regret is clean him up as the nominee for secretary in the south this this person and we've never ... seen blocking the cabinet level position ... it will release regret the sun ... set on the ... points presented by the team demagogues ... up in the Democratic left ... it is unprecedented number to pulling ... up we had in the position of Secretary Defense at the time of high danger what are they talking about ... our ... Mr. he who is the person we need to know desperately to fill on their principal of the snow ... and an upgrade of the of ... terrorists that ... weren't ... in his ... routine hearing known and a decision on coal ... Mary let me tell you ... each side politically has its own characteristic ... of parts to the coast of the Democratic left ... of that is always to take ... the position that the other side ... is completely came are all this is invariably the high moral ground high sensitivity positions ... have only to look ... at ... ex Secretary of State Clinton the hearing ... when she ... did this instead won the battle what about those four dead Americans ... when it comes to toe in the conclusion ... that ... we live as Christians is somehow responsible for desecrated amenities ... now ... this is routine demagoguery she got away with it only in the acolyte Press ... the US ... instead we need more information on the nomination what else do we need to know ... after that hearing Mr cable may be ... incompetent that he doesn't ... it is that the issue the president Jack twenty watt see yes man and depending on if that's who he prefers ... well ... that isn't the question the question is that there are two sides in our democracy one side dedicated to getting up the facts he was axed in the name of Frankenweenie owners ... one was left out ... he left out ... the question of his two meetings was no surprise to no one can leave them know what to believe that the mention of those to speak too soon to be an Arab anti discrimination ... and the testimony from that event which they refuse to release ... a partner of secrets ... anything Furtive ... eGT showed up ... the other side ... second application to stitch some mine is the best disinfectant does revolt that I was in focus a little bit on the present and in in his involved here he resigned Goebel plus Hangouts kind of ... on line chat as the Hagel nomination was going south on Thursday ... what is this say ... about his commitment to the nominee ... um does this mean that he he believes it will just go through more ... I it is he willing to just sort of roll the dice to see how this goes oh no I think the present is infinite confidence in his ability to get this nominee through whatever the reason was but what you sow was just ... the most remarkable assertion of August ... you know folks that this ... is this he said the most transparent administration in history ... this is the administration that has dealt him on the question of thing GOs the ... in a reputable facts which he simply denying the fact ... eight that ... the stock on that question alone then got C which is so which is connected to the table ... but can ... he did not going to connect with anyone in Libya until after everyone was dead ... we know that the night ... after the president was off on his way to a footbridge in Las Vegas ... no one spoke of anything no one did anything ... the enormous quality of the contradictions ... on the status of the contradictions just about big Ozzie custom ... piece honoring used for question ... this is the most political president we've seen in generations what if the idea that he is putting up people like April putting up ideas like climate change higher taxes thing's Republicans just ... cannot possibly support ... just to paint them as obstructionists for twenty fourteen is that what this is now you know that there's some truth ... to that but the other thing is I think a much isn't much more obvious ... to steer element ... the president is a man of the land ... the president really wants to change things in accordance with his longtime career as a social worker ... and a reconsidered ... he does want to do this ... his attitude is ... consented and the tender ... I think the age of of of ... what is it a fighting nastiness of ... UN president you're not to giggle should get nominated or he should not be able to get nominated ... in my view ... the Citigroup could do the entire nation a favor and president of nominated him by saying this is too much trouble ... you need somebody of course he won't do that ... and of I suspect that the nomination ... could go through but nothing new ... Republican ... on Friday ... in the real world ... the new world they are shelling been metal now because ... there's something about the peso nomination so unforgettable ... because the testimony of his incompetence was so and could get testimony of his incompetence so unforgettable ... Dorothy says ... he should get the job editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz thank you for being ... with this